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As I take my leave.

Dr. Missy Alexander

This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. On this last day of my role as provost, it is that argument for the value that I’d like to end with.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. Feroe, former acting president and interim provost, was named interim president. The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” Geisler last summer.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

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John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. As the provost of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.,

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. We have a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that the provost supports. … Among the course selections are the African American novel, human sexuality and behavior, power and gender, and science, technology and gender.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually. ” The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges.